From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 3 8:32:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F251F37B653 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:32:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [12.21.241.171] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ha914011 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:32:16 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA58951; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:32:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: "Teesdale, Andy" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Please Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:24:38 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <3.0.6.32.20000303101647.007b8100@168.89.6.199> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000303101647.007b8100@168.89.6.199> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030311320902.58868@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Teesdale, Andy wrote: > >I have been introduced to Linux but I am not to sure if this is the way to > >go. I came across an article in Computing SA on FreeBSD and this caught > >my attention. I have tried to download the software using MS Internet > >Explorer but get an error message when trying to connect to the ftp site. > >I asked a college to try using Netscape and he could connect but was > >confused when he saw the list of downloads. > > > >I have tried to contact the Hostmaster in South Africa but the mesage was > >returned by the server. Hello Andy. First off, if you're going after FreeBSD for game play, then forget it. Stick to Linux. That was just to save you a lot of time, effort and grief. If you have other reasons, then the place to start is by going to the FreeBSD website and doing a little reading before trying to install anything. These two links should get you off to a good start: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html I myself did not know a thing about Linux or *nix os's when I started a few months ago, but between the documention and all the wonderful people on this mailing list there is very little that I have not been able to achieve. Welcome to FreeBSD, and good luck! -- Walter Brameld in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message